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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1924
Page
9
Miss Elizabeth H. West, Texas state librarian, tours Amarillo libraries calling for a statewide library system. She cites Potter County's library and rest room as a model and praises Potter County librarian Willie Lee Martin and staff for strong county library development.
The executive committee fixed the place and date for the association's annual meeting to be in Houston from May 19 to 22. The gathering includes leading Texas and neighboring states electric power and light, gas, telephone, and electric railway firms. The program focuses on technical and commercial practices and service improvement for utilities. Convention committee members include W. EB. Wood, B. R. Berton, F D. Murphy, A. F. Townsend, B. Cherry, I. P. Armbruster, and FE. N. Willis, secretary.
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In Atlanta a resourceful bootlegger used a wealthy family's telephone call to feign a raid. The wife was told the police would raid the home and to have the liquor ready on the back porch for immediate pickup, while residents watched for officers from the street.
A meeting will be held Wednesday night in the office of William Cazzell in the Cazzell building San Jacinto to discuss forming a boys band. Worrest Warren a former Globe staffer now editor of the San Jacinto Booster leads the effort.
Mike Becker will entertain Hen son Post No. 64 of the American Legion with a radio party after a brief post business session at the region home Tuesday night. All ex-service members are invited to attend.
Kansas City telegraph reports Melissa Akers, Shannon County, Missouri sheriff, widowed appointee, carries a six shooter and vanity kit, escorts convicts to Jefferson City, serves papers across the county, and works as an auctioneer raising over $8,500 for the Akers family.
The City Drug store in Amarillo announces a sale and new management. Rowland, with 28 years in retail and wholesale drug work, becomes manager as Hal P Witherspoon and D O Allen join John E Rowland and others in the ownership group. The store, a large West Texas supplier, carries drugs sporting goods paints papers and sundries.
The tabernacle of the fighting parson, Colorado’s oldest mining district church, has been razed. Thomas Uzzell and a small crew built it after driving off three claim jumpers and quarrel with gamblers. The church served five years before Uzzell left for Denver and died there years later.
Emil F. Myers director says the Panhandle Music festival will run April 12 to 17 in Musive. The annual event draws hundreds daily with numerous contests and substantial prizes. Professionals not yet secured, but several famous artists may appear in the auditorium program.
At a Friday night meeting in the Amarillo hotel Ross E Phillips of the Guy Light and Water company was elected president of the new Amarillo Electrical league. Officers named include F P Spencer vice president Charter Low secretary and Walter Foster treasurer. Representatives from H K Taylor Electrical company City Light and Water Spencer Nunn Electric Finklow Electric and several from Western Electric and General Electric attended. The club aims to hold monthly sessions due to high demand for organization in this field.
Warren says he delivered 1,000 San Jacinto Boosters in San Jacinto and Country Club homes Friday night and received many requests for copies this morning.
Until those who helped build the tabernacle had vanished no one would suggest removing the eye sore from its location.
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